Title & Author:

The walled Arab city in literature, architecture and history : the living Medina in the Maghrib / edited by Susan Slyomovics.

Publication:

London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2001.

Description:

165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Series:

Cass series--history and society in the Islamic world

Notes:
This group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue on 'The walled Arab city in literature, architecture and history : the living Medina in the Maghrib' of The Journal of North African Studies (ISSN 1362-9387) 5/4 (Winter 2000).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Orientalism as irony in Gérard de Nerval's Voyage en Orient / James E. Housefield -- Watering the garden of Tangier : colonial contestations in a Moroccan city / Susan Gilson Miller -- The social context of working equines in the urban Middle East : the example of Fez Medina / Diana K. Davis and Denys Frappier -- The role of the Medinas in the reconstruction of Algerian culture and identity / Djilali Sari -- Geographies of Jewish Tlemcen / Susan Slyomovics -- Neighbourhood notes : texture and streetscape in the Médina of Tunis / Justin McGuinness -- Preservation and self-absorption : Italian colonisation and the walled city of Tripoli, Libya / Mia Fuller.
Abstracts in English.

Summary:

"This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the medina, the traditional walled Arab city of North Africa. The medina becomes a concrete case study for comparative explorations of general questions about the social use of urban space by opening up fields of research at the intersection of history, comparative cultural studies, architecture and anthropology. Essays by American, European and North African scholars demonstrate the variety of new sources and theoretical approaches now being used in writing historical narratives framed within the city space, shed light on recent studies by anthropologists regarding social praxis within the urban context, and analyse the urban experience of the medina and the Kasbah as they are represented in visual and material culture."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN:

071465177X (hard)
9780714651774 (hard)
0714682152 (pbk.)
9780714682150 (pbk.)

Subject:

Nerval, Gérard de, 1808-1855. Voyage en Orient.
Islamic cities and towns Africa, North History.
Cities and towns Africa, North History.
Architecture and society Africa, North History.
Sociology, Urban.
Islamic architecture Africa, North.
Villes islamiques Afrique du Nord Histoire.
Villes Afrique du Nord Histoire.
Architecture et société Afrique du Nord Histoire.
Sociologie urbaine.
Architecture islamique Afrique du Nord.
urban sociology.
15.80 history of Africa.
73.13 settlement (ethnology)
Architecture and society.
Cities and towns.
Islamic architecture.
Islamic cities and towns.
Architektur
Geschichte
Literatur
Stadt
Aufsatzsammlung
Medina's.
Representatie (algemeen)
Humaniora.
Sociale wetenschappen.
Tangier (Morocco)
Tunis (Tunisia)
Tlemcen (Algeria)
Tanger (Maroc)
Tunis (Tunisie)
Tlemcen (Algérie)
North Africa.
Algeria Tlemcen.
Morocco Tangier.
Tunisia Tunis.
Nordafrika

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Conference papers (document genres)
History.
Congresses (form)

Added entries:

Slyomovics, Susan.
Journal of North African studies. 5/4 (Winter 2000)
Cass series--history and society in the Islamic world.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 220045
Call No.: DT192 .W3 2001
Status: Available